Writing is a demanding, personal task. Any piece of writing, scientific or not, assumes the personality and philosophy of the writer. All writing styles are more or less arbitrary, and preferences vary widely. One cannot argue that a single style or approach is best, for the variations (even with ‘‘good’’ writing) are infinite. However, all agree that clear, concise writing most effectively com...

After publication of this article [1], the authors became aware that the numerical codes for two of the datasets, protocols III.3 and III.4, were inadvertently confused during the writing of the paper. Accordingly, the following corrigenda apply: • Abstract, last line: For ‘distributed electrical stimulation,’ read ‘elevated extracellular magnesium concentrations.’ • Background, last paragraph ...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It first scholarly in focusing on research field and Distance Learning (ODL), being since 1997. provides platform to publish pedagogy relating teaching learning at level, particular (ODL). also forum for review articles related areas Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering...

The present study sought to investigate the effect of Critical Language Awareness (CLA) on upper-intermediate EFL learners’ writing ability. Thirty-two EFL learners were selected based on their scores on a placement test and were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. In addition to the placement test, a five-paragraph essay writing test was administered to assess the partici...